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Libraries - public, school, and academic - are ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays explore the role of the library in the life of the reader and the library as a place in the life of its users.

Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, this collection explores the gestures of hurtfulness and compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the midst of a political demonstration, or at the centre of an orchestra, the poems pursue the place of language in an injurous world.

In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the ""befuddlement"" of childhood, and the wisdom of the nursing child.

In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to consider the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before then. This text illustrates the surprising glorification of madness in the prose novella ""The Queen of Spades"" and the lyric ""God Grant That I Not Lose My Mind"".

Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who wins renown as a Yiddish actress. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics, and Chloe's daughter Phoebe becomes a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.

For learners of technical Japanese, this title offers an approach to the language of chemistry. It includes lectures that aid aural comprehension of scientific terminology, promote an understanding of chemistry as a human intellectual activity, and place chemical discoveries in the context of world history.

Presents the story of a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, and of their passions for hunting, wild lands, and the grouse and raptor species they were instrumental in saving from destruction. This book provides an account of conservation history over the course of the 20th century, particularly in Wisconsin from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Questions about land use, conservation, and preservation--already so perplexing and contentious--take on a new complexity and greater urgency when the land in question is understood as sacred. This is a view increasingly held, as adherents of mainstream religions come to recognize what indigenous peoples knew centuries ago--that the sacred inheres in nature itself. What such a trend means and how it involves the forces of culture, religion, and constitutional law (especially First Amendment clauses concerning the free exercise of religion) are considered with a remarkable breadth and depth of understanding in this important new work. Drawing on case studies of national parks and monuments, national forests, and other public lands and resources, Lloyd Burton gives a clear and comprehensive account of how the intertwining influences of culture, religion, and law have affected the management of public lands and resources in the recent past and how they may do so in the future. In a unique and unprecedented way, his book weaves together teachings on nature and the sacred among indigenous and immigrant culture groups in the United States; the relevant constitutional history of religion and government action; and analysis of contemporary conflicts over culture, religion, and public lands management. As such, Worship and Wilderness is essential reading not only for public land managers and environmental policy makers but also for anyone interested in the growing significance of religious interests in the use of resources that constitute our national commons and our common natural heritage.

Of the Rosenbluth family, only the older children, Faiga and Luzer, had gone into hiding before the SS rounded up the Jews of Kanczuga, Poland. ""Hidden"" is Faiga and Luzer's story.

Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this volume explores how the omission of children from the region's historiography may in fact be no small matter.

Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this volume explores how the omission of children from the region's historiography may in fact be no small matter.

This is the tale of a woman who readily admits her fear of travel, a fear that many experience but are embarrassed to admit. When finally she plunges into the new adventure, she describes her experiences in Florence with wit, humour and energy.

This text shows how healthcare professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent holistic healthcare, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. It investigates the need to rethink healthcare practices to bring the art and science of medicine back into balance.

Blending history, science and public policy, this reference book on the Great Lakes should be of interest to limnologists, biologists, graduate students, researchers, public officials, elementary and high school teachers, those who live near the Lake and those who use it for recreation.

This double biography explores Lawrence and von Richthofen's collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles their stormy marriage. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence's art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage.

This biography of Jonas Hallgimsson, Icelands most important modern poet and first professional geologist, contains a representative selection of his most important poems, and some of his prose work in science and belles lettres. it also has extended commentaries and an essay on Icelandic prosody.

This volume covers Anglophone Caribbean literature from the colonial era up to the beginning of the 21st century. It charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean and differing concepts of community and social integration.

Explores the plight of gypsies in Germany before, during and since the era of the Third Reich. The book reveals the painful record of the official treatment of the German Gypsies, from the heightened racism of the 19th century, to the National Socialist genocidal policies and up to the present day.

This is a comprehensive collection of material on sculptured statue bases which should be of interest to archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies).

Tuvia Friling recounts and analyses the efforts of aid and rescue made by the Jewish community of Palestine - the Yishuv - to help European Jews facing annihilation. It shows the wide scope and complexity of Yishuv activity at this time.

This volume reviews the International Health Policy Program, assesing whether it has fostered institutional and individual research on health policy in developing countries and helped policymakers effectively use resources.

This text offers an array of essays that consider literary, intellectual, political, theological and cultural aspects of the years 1650-1800, in the British Isles and Europe. At the centre of the book is Jonathan Swift; other essays discuss Alexander Pope, and 18th-century music and poetry.

From the McDonald's hot coffee case to current nutrition labeling laws, Mr Peanut and trademark infringement, prison meals, definitions of organic food, what and how we eat are shaped as much by legal restrictions as by personal taste. This text looks at the intersections of food and the law.

This guidebook introduces you to over 60 brewpubs and breweries in Wisconsin, and rates 600 local beers. Each description includes a history, ratings, notes on the pub food with suggestions of other sites to see and activities in the area. There is also information on the brewing process.

This facsimile edition makes available in one volume all eight issues of ""Tambour"", a historically important ""little magazine"" published in Paris in 1929 and 1930 that featured a mix of writing by European and American modernists.

This volume explores the influence of African American music on world culture. It brings together issues of race, gender, politics, history and dance, includes discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, ""Southland"".

This volume is part of a series which is a tribute to women in Africa and the African diaspora. It weaves together oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts and traveller's tales from Egypt to Southern Africa, from prehistory to the 19th century.

Established at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 by educational theorist Alexander Meiklejohn, the ""Experimental College"" was a small residence-based programme within the university that provided a core curriculum of liberal education of two years of college. This is a record of the experiment.

This complete guide for mountain-biking in the Wisconsin region includes details of terrain and levels of difficulty, trail maps, directions to the trail sites, use fees, and information on organizations, websites and races. New to this edition are 21 trail systems.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.